Coming up on start talk, we speak with my friend and colleague, Aumila Shields.

She's an associate professor of astronomy specializing in astrobiology at UC Irvine.

And we talk about the search for life on planets that are already known to exist

in orbit around their host stars. We're going to learn what M stars are. We're going to find out

what the color of the star has to do with what life might be like on a planet's surface

that orbits it. And we'll also take questions, cosmic queries from our Patreon members,

all that and more coming right up.

Welcome to start talk. You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

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This is start talk. You'll be able to grasp Tyson here. You're a personal astrophysicist.

I got Chuck nice with me Chuck. Yes. I'll do it again.

Doing again. This is the universe is nonstop. That's right. And it's and it is.

Is it really not real? Is it really? Yes. Does it? I mean, seriously, can we say with certainty

that the universe does not stop? I mean, it does anything in the universe that doesn't stop?

It's the universe itself. There you go. Bam. Okay. I'm going to I'm going to see your statement

and raise you entropy. So I'm going to. Today we're talking about life on other planets.

Yes. Other planets. And we've got a friend and colleague of mine,

Omar Shields. So she's an astrophysicist and more specifically an astrobiologist,

which is kind of a new field, new in the last few decades. I'm old enough to call that new.

Also on the landscape of science communication, she's there and she's a force. She's an associate

professor in the department of physics and astronomy and UC Irvine and founder of

Rising Star Girls, a program dedicated to helping girls discover the universe. What? I know.

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